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May 22nd, 2005:

Malaysia Star: World-class dialysis facility

Malaysia Star: World-class dialysis facility

22 May 2005

MIRI: Senior nursing students from medical colleges in Australia will be coming to the Miri Red Crescent Kidney Dialysis Centre for their practical training.

The centre’s chairman Lee Kim Shin, who is Assistant State Minister for Infrastructure Development and Communications, made the announcement yesterday at the official opening ceremony of the RM5mil centre by Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.

“Visitors from other countries, including those from the medical profession, have acknowledged that this centre has a world-class dialysis treatment facility. read more

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Mandarins on sale

Sunday Telegraph: Mandarins on sale

Sunday 22 May 2005

Labour and Tory leaders have desperately tried to people the civil service with private sector execs in the naive belief that their mere presence would unleash dynamism in the engine-room of government.

What has happened, in fact, is that the mandarins are taking over the FTSE100. Apart from the appointment of Lord Burns, a former Treasury permanent secretary, as Marks & Spencer’s chairman, Lord Kerr, a former head of the foreign office, is senior non-exec at Shell and is overseeing the search for the oil giant’s new chairman. read more

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2,000 more wind turbines in countryside

The Observer (UK): 2,000 more wind turbines in countryside

Sunday 22 May 2005

Minister pledges numbers will double to generate 10pc of UK energy within five years

Mark Townsend, environment correspondent

Sunday May 22, 2005

A massive expansion of wind power involving thousands of new turbines will go ahead despite increasingly bitter wrangling over claims that they are despoiling Britain’s countryside.

In his first speech since becoming energy minister, Malcolm Wicks, will offer unequivocal backing to the green lobby by insisting it is ‘vital’ the government rides out vocal opposition to windfarms and sticks with wind energy. read more

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CLIVE MATHER: Age: 57 President and CEO Shell Canada Ltd., Calgary

Financial Post (Canada): ‘Have running shoes, will travel’ is CEO’s business trip motto

Posted 22 May 2005

CLIVE MATHER: Age: 57 President and CEO Shell Canada Ltd., Calgary

Business “An integrated oil company on the move … we’re responding to a lot of very favourable stimuli in the environment; the biggest is the oilsands.”

Where do you travel on company business? “I typically do a lot of travel in Canada. That’s partially because I’m new here and I absolutely love the country, but I’ve also been trying very hard to get around and see our operations and meet key stakeholders.” read more

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Nigeria seeks to double oil exports

Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa): Nigeria seeks to double oil exports

By Dave Clark

22 May 2005

With the world’s demand for oil and gas surging, multinational energy giants have embarked on a platform-building spree off the southern coast of Nigeria with an eye to doubling exports from the unruly West African giant.

From the deck of Total’s Amenam platform, high above the surging blue waters of the Atlantic, visitors can see the bright orange gas flares of a half-dozen more wells through the haze in the middle distance.

In the foreground lie the half-built structures of future oil and gas rigs. read more

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